List of Sri Lanka national cricket captains
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This is a list of all men, boys and women who have captained a Sri Lankan national cricket team at official international level. Sri Lanka became a full member of the International Cricket Council on 21 July 1981. Previously they were an associate member of the ICC from 1965, which made them eligible to compete in the ICC Trophy, the leading one-day tournament for associate members. Just after Sri Lanka gained Test status in 1981 a team of rebel players toured apartheid South Africa under the banner "Arosa Sri Lanka" (the term "Arosa" being derived from the promoter's name). All players who toured Sri Lanka were banned from official cricket matches for life, thereby setting Sri Lanka's development back. Sri Lanka's greatest success in One Day Internationals was when they won the Cricket World Cup in 1996 under the captaincy of Arjuna Ranatunga.
Men's cricket
=Test match captains=
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Sri Lankan cricket team for at least one Test match.{{cite web | url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/individual/list_captains.html?class=1;id=8;type=team | title=Cricinfo Statsguru – Records / Sri Lanka / Test matches / List of Captains | work=Cricinfo | accessdate=26 June 2011}} The table of results is complete including the first Test against Bangladesh which ended on 4 February 2018. Where a player has a dagger (†) next to a Test match series in which he captained at least one Test, that denotes that player captained this side for a minor proportion in a series.
Notes:
- 1 Asian Test Championship
- ² Final of the Asian Test Championship
Updated 27 March 2022
=Men's One-Day International captains=
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Sri Lankan cricket team for at least one One Day International. Sri Lanka's greatest success was when they won the 1996 cricket World Cup under the captaincy of Arjuna Ranatunga.
Updated 15 February 2024
=Twenty20 International captains=
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Sri Lankan cricket team for at least one Twenty20 International.
Updated: 14 July 2024
=ICC Trophy=
The ICC Trophy is the leading one-day tournament from non-Test teams, and Sri Lanka participated in the tournament before they gained Test status. This is a list of the men who captained Sri Lanka in the ICC Trophy.
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! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=9 | Sri Lankan ICC Trophy captains | ||||||||
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! Number ! Name ! Year ! Played ! Won ! Tied ! Lost ! No result ! Where finished | ||||||||
| | 1 | Anura Tennekoon | 1979 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Winners |
| | 2 | Bandula Warnapura | 1979 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Winners |
| colspan=3 | Grand total | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other Men's captains
=Rebel tours to South Africa=
In October and November 1982 a group of Sri Lankan cricketers went on a private tour of apartheid South Africa. It was the first time a tour comprising all non-white cricketers had toured white South Africa (a team of Kenyan Asians had previously visited the black areas of South Africa, and the International Wanderers XI
Women's cricket
=Test match captains=
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Sri Lankan women's cricket team for at least one women's Test match. Sri Lanka have played only one women's Test.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Teams/1/1285/Womens_Test_Matches.html |title=Women's Test Matches played by Sri Lanka Women |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=16 December 2012}}
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! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=9 | Sri Lankan women's Test match captains | ||||||||
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! Number ! Name ! Year ! Opposition ! Location ! Played ! Won ! Lost ! Drawn | ||||||||
| | 1 | Rasanjali Silva | 1997 | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
=Women's One-Day International captains=
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Sri Lankan women's cricket team for at least one women's one-day international. The table of results is complete to the women's ODI against South Africa in the World Cup in 2004/5. Sri Lanka have never reached the semi-final stage in women's World Cups.
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! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=8 | Sri Lankan women's ODI captains | |||||||
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! Number ! Name ! Year ! Played ! Won ! Tied ! Lost ! No result | |||||||
| | 1 | Vanessa Bowen | 1997 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| | 2 | Rasanjali Silva | 1998–2000 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| | 3 | Suthershini Sivanantham | 2002–03 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | 4 | Thanuja Ekanayake | 2004 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| | 5 | Chandimali Samanthi | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | 6 | Sandamali Dolawatta | 2005–2013 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| | 7 | Shashikala Siriwardene | 2005–2017 | 54 | 18 | 0 | 34 | 2 |
| | 8 | Chamani Seneviratna | 2010 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | 9 | Dilani Manodara | 2010 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| | 10 | Chamari Athapaththu | 2014–2015 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
| | 11 | Eshani Kaushalya | 2015 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | 12 | Inoka Ranaweera | 2017 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| colspan=3 | Grand total | 128 | 51 | 0 | 72 | 5 |
=Women's Twenty20International captains=
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! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=8 | Sri Lankan women's T20I captains | |||||||
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! Number ! Name ! Year ! Played ! Won ! Tied ! Lost ! No result | |||||||
| | 1 | Chamari Polgampola | 2009 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | 2 | Chamani Seneviratna | 2010 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| | 3 | Shashikala Siriwardene | 2010–2014 | 31 | 9 | 0 | 20 | 2 |
| | 4 | Dilani Manodara | 2012 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| | 5 | Chamari Athapaththu | 2014–2015 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| colspan=3 | Grand total | 57 | 16 | 0 | 38 | 3 |
Youth cricket
=Test match captains=
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Sri Lankan Under-19 cricket team for at least one under-19 Test match. The table of results is complete to the second "Test" against Pakistan in 2004/5. Where a player has a dagger (†) next to a Test match series in which he captained at least one Test, that denotes that player was captain for a minor proportion in a series. The very nature of Under-19 cricket means that in practice no youth captains the side for more than one year.
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! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=9 | Sri Lankan Under-19 Test match captains | ||||||||
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! Number ! Name ! Year ! Opposition ! Location ! Played ! Won ! Lost ! Drawn | ||||||||
| | 1 | Aravinda de Silva | 1983/4 | Australia | Australia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| | 2 | Roshan Mahanama | 1984/5 | Australia | Australia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| | 3 | Asanka Gurusinha | 1986 | England | England | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| | 4 | Denham Madena | 1986/7 | England | Sri Lanka | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| | 5 | Suchithra Alexander | 1992 | England | England | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| | 6 | Avishka Gunawardene | 1993/4 | England | Sri Lanka | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| | 7 | Nimesh Perera | 1996/7 | India | Sri Lanka | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| | 8 | Upekha Fernando | 1998/9 | India | India | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| | 9 | Kaushalya Weeraratne | 2000 | England | England | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| | 10 | Thilina Kandamby | 2000/1 | Australia | Australia | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| | 11 | Farveez Maharoof | 2003 | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| | 12 | Harsha Vithana | 2005 | Pakistan | Pakistan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| | 14 | Angelo Mathews | 2005 | England | England | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| | 15 | Sachith Pathirana | 2007 | India | Sri Lanka | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| | 16 | Dinesh Chandimal | 2009 | Bangladesh | Bangladesh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| | 17 | Chathura Peiris | 2010 | England | England | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| | 18 | Bhanuka Rajapaksa | 2011 | Bangladesh | Bangladesh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| | 19 | Kusal Mendis | 2013 | India | Sri Lanka | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| colspan=5 | Grand total | 47 | 6 | 14 | 27 |
=Youth One-Day International captains=
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Sri Lankan Under-19 cricket team for at least one Under-19 One Day International. The table of results is complete to the end of the 2005/6 Afro-Asia Cup. Sri Lanka's best result in the Under-19 World Cup was as runners-up in 1999/2000 under the captaincy of Malintha Gajanayake.
| class="wikitable"
! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=8 | Sri Lankan Under-19 ODI captains | |||||||
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! Number ! Name ! Year ! Played ! Won ! Tied ! Lost ! No result | |||||||
| | 1 | Aravinda de Silva | 1983/4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | 2 | Asanka Gurusinha | 1986 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | 3 | Denham Madena | 1986/7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | 4 | Rohan Weerakkody | 1987/8 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| | 5 | Marvan Atapattu | 1989/90 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | 6 | Avishka Gunawardene | 1993/4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | 7 | Pradeep Hewage | 1997/8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | 8 | Upekha Fernando | 1998/9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| | 9 | Prasanna Jayawardene | 1998/9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | 10 | Malintha Gajanayake | 1999/2000 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| | 11 | Kaushalya Weeraratne | 2000 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| | 12 | Thilina Kandamby | 2000/1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| | 13 | Dhammika Niroshana | 2001/2 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| | 14 | Jeewan Mendis | 2001/2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | 15 | Farveez Maharoof | 2003-2003/4 | 19 | 9 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| | 16 | Harsha Vithana | 2004/5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | 17 | Angelo Mathews | 2005–2006 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| | 18 | Sameera de Zoysa | 2006 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | 19 | Sachith Pathirana | 2007 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| | 20 | Ashan Priyanjan | 2007/08 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| | 21 | Dinesh Chandimal | 2009 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| | 22 | Chathura Peiris | 2009/10 | 24 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 2 |
| | 23 | Bhanuka Rajapaksa | 2009–2011 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| | 24 | Yashodha Lanka | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| | 25 | Angelo Jayasinghe | 2011 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| | 26 | Sanitha de Mel | 2012 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| | 27 | Kusal Mendis | 2013/14 | 18 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| | 28 | Sadeera Samarawickrama | 2014 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | 29 | Charith Asalanka | 2015/16 | 19 | 8 | 0 | 9 | 2 |
| colspan=3 | Grand total | 225 | 105 | 0 | 108 | 12 |
See also
References
- [https://cricketarchive.com CricketArchive]
- [http://www.cricinfo.com Cricinfo]
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack